“Light as a feather.”
That’s how small-business owner Manny Yekutiel described feeling as he watched Joseph R. Biden become president Wednesday on the Capitol steps, a spot where just two weeks prior, a mob wreaked havoc in an attempt to overturn the election results. Yekutiel, owner of Manny’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Mission District, hosted a virtual inauguration watch party with hundreds of attendees.
“It was inspiring,” Yekutiel said about Biden’s 22-minute inaugural address, in which the newly installed president offered a message of unity and renewal to a country in the midst of a deadly pandemic and after a turbulent four years. “Poignant and powerful. I watched history unfold with my fellow Americans.”
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Live updates: Biden’s tone, flurry of orders underscore new day for U.S. By Vanessa Arredondo, Dominic Fracassa and Rita Beamish
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and their new administration got to work in a nation besieged by a raging pandemic, economic calamity and deep political divisions. Biden signed 17 executive orders shortly after his swearing-in, dealing with the pandemic, climate change, immigration and other pressing issues that reflected the dramatic divergence of his priorities from those of the vanquished Trump administration.
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1:56 p.m. Biden immigration bill nixes word “alien”: In a small but symbolic part of President Biden’s proposed sweeping immigration overhaul, the word “alien” will be removed from US immigration laws, replaced by “noncitizen,” CNN reports. “It’s a deliberate step intended to recognize America as “a nation of immigrants,” according to a summary of the bill. The
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In this May 9, 2019, file photo, state Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove, of Bakersfield, talks with reporters at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Grove, who drew criticism after she promoted a conspiracy theory that Antifa activists attacked the U.S. Capitol, will be replaced as the Republican leader in the California Senate.Rich Pedroncelli / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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In this image from video, Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Padilla was appointed to replace Harris as one of California s Senators upon her election as Vice-president of the United States.Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
It was announced that on Tuesday 400,000 people across the country had been killed by coronavirus
Buildings in major cities were lit up in shades of red and amber as a sign of respect for the 400,000 dead
President-elect Joe Biden and his incoming vice president Kamala Harris held a ceremony last night
They spoke in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with 400 lights also being lit alongside the pool